A moral prognostication. To the reader. 905 Of what must be expected in the churches of christendom, till the golden age returns, or till the time of true reformation and unity. 906 Of the changes that will be in christendom in the golden age, and time of true reformation and unity. 914 Consectary. 920
The reformed liturgy. The ordinary public worship on the Lord's day. 921 The order of celebrating the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. 930 The celebration of the sacrament of baptism. 934 Of catechising, and the approbation of those that are to be admitted to the Lord's supper. 936 Of the celebration of matrimony. 937 The visitation of the sick, and their communion. 938 The order of solemnizing the burial of the dead. 938 Of extraordinary days of humiliation and thanksgiving, and anniversary festivals. 939 Of prayer and thanksgiving for particular members of the church. 939 Of pastoral discipline, public confession, absolution, and exclusion from the holy communion of the church. 941 Appendix: prayers to be used at discretion. 945
Think not by the title of this part, that I am doing the same work which I lately revoked in my "Political Aphorisms;" though I concluded that book to be _quasi non scriptum_, I told you I recanted not the doctrine of it, which is for the empire of God, and the interest of government, order, and honesty in the world. This is no place to give you the reasons of my revocation, besides that it offended my superiors, and exercised the tongues of some in places, where other matters would be more profitable: pass by all that concerneth our particular states and times, and you may know by that what principles of policy I judge divine. And experience teacheth me, that it is best for men of my profession, to meddle with no more, but to leave it to the Contzeu's, the Arnisæus's, and other Jesuits, to promote their cause by voluminous politics. The pope's false-named church is a kingdom, and his ministers may write of politics more congruously, and (it seems) with less offence, than we. Saith the "Geographia Nubiensis" aptly, "There is a certain king dwelling at Rome called the pope," &c. when he goeth to describe him. Nothing well suits with our function, but the pure doctrine of salvation; let statesmen and lawyers mind the rest.